Living the life God intended...

Living the life God intended...

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Fun at Disney!

I once worked with a doctor from South Africa that I adored, she was in fact our Doctor for Ryan during a majority of our pregnancy.  This is how she described one of my favorite places:

“It’s like Disney World, you’re miserable every minute of it but have to do it for your kids.”

We feel Dr. Fisch is very mistaken…must be the culture difference!  The Ireland and Bobbitt family LOVE Disney (adults and children alike)!  And are so thankful for the awesome gift Nana gave us for Christmas!  No material thing could have compared to the fun we had all together.  And for that day, we had so much fun together that I almost forgot I was still, yes, all day sick!  MUST BE A GIRL! 

Our Disney crew consisted of:  Matt, myself, Ryan, Andrew, Nana, Amy(sister), Joey(sister’s husband), Madeline(niece), Mikey(nephew), and a friend of mine and Nana’s that I had not seen in over 10 years Allison and her girls Elizabeth and Madeline.  We were quite the crew and the Markins girls didn’t even fuss at each other the whole day (Nana, Amy, and me).  It was GREAT!  We are all control freaks and add Uncle Joey the engineer and we ALL have an idea what to do and when…but this time, we all just had a great time and as always enjoyed every minute of each other!

We had a tight schedule that morning as Mikey was FINALLY going to get his girl hair cut and become a real MAN, and as always in Disney, appts must be made months ahead of time and heeded or you’re out of luck.  Our first stop was the My First Haircut salon…

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Look Aunt Jenny, I’m a big boy now!

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And the older kids first request…CANDY!

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Ryan isn’t scared of the characters anymore!

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The traditional Magic Kingdom picture…

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Time for Winnie the Pooh!  It’s Tigger and old Eeyore now Christopher Robin…

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Pull hard Andrew…

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Ryan is always good to stop for a pic!

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Much cooler with less hair!

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They can’t wait for it’s a small world… 

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La la la la la la la la la la… Ireland

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To infinity and beyond…

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Andrew didn’t care if he knew who the character was or not! It was all part of the fun!

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Time for a break…

We seriously could have bought a double stroller for as much as they charged to rent this bad boy! I think my cheapness is leaking out!

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Look, they made topiaries of Matt and Jenny…

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And the biggest part of Ryan’s day was the first time on Splash Mountain!  We could not believe he decided to do it and I think we were more scared than he was.  He went with Uncle Joey, Madeline, Allison and Elizabeth and was NOT going to back down.  I really thought there would be tears at the end!

See the sweet little face looking back in the back row?  He’s so brave!

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Here’s the drop…the camera snapped a 1/2 a second too soon!

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And after it all…he wanted to go again!

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After all that waiting, we needed a water break…

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Mikey loves his Uncle Matty! 

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Now it was Andrew’s big adventure!  He was not so sure about the Dumbo ride and had refused to ride all day but after seeing Ryan’s bravery, he was inspired!

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Look at our sweet boy flying with the birds…and elephants!!!  I even got to ride this ride.

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Ok, so the stroller rental was TOTALLY worth it…

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He’ll always be her little brother…

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And for Disney part II, stay tuned!

1 comment:

Katie said...

how fun! that place is hard to do in one day! love all the pics and YES those strollers are WAY over priced for one day!!

can you believe a + e went on splash mtn for the first time when they were 3.5 y/o :)

Katie